Family:John Stout and Elizabeth Crawford (1)

STOUT, John and Elizabeth Crawford, 12 January 1671, Monmouth Co., N. J.

Source: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bart/THROCK1.htm
John Stout was born 1645 in Gravesend, Long Island, NY and, in 1667 drew lot no. 19 in Middletown.

Source: Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Vol. I 1670-1730 Page:445 Jonathan Stout 24 Nov 1722
Lig. A, p. 328
yeoman; will of. Children: Joseph, Sarah, Hannah, Benjamin, Zebulon, Jonathan, David, Samuel, Anne. Real and personal estate (1-16 of a proprietary share). Executor--Andrew Smith. Witnesses--Hezekiah Bonham, Hezekiah Bunell, Bartho. Corwine. Proved March 25, 1723.

Occupation: Farmer John and Elizabeth were married by Justice of the Peace John Bowne. In 1675 he was chosen a magistrate of a Monthly Court of small cases. 1679-1680 he was chosen a deputy to represent Middletown in the local Assembly. On 4 July 1681, John was appointed an ensign in the military company of Middletown and in 1684-5, he was appointed constable of Middletown. When Middletown was settled in 1664-5, he drew a lot on Main Street and one in an outlying area.
[bstout2.ged]

When the Baptist Church in Columbia Village, Hopewell Township, NJ was organized in 1715, Jonathan and his family accounted for 13 of the 15 members. The church was held at Jonathan's home and then at other Stout homes for about 41 years. From first to last, half the members were Stouts - 200 of that name being added in those 41 years - besides all the Stout family members with other surnames. The two deacons and four elders in the first church building were Stouts. Zebulon and David (grandsons of Richard Stout through Jonathan Stout) were two of it's main pillars. David lived to see 117 offspring.

Jonathan Stout, the Hopewell pioneer, died in 1723, and in his will proved March 25, 1723, he bequeathed to his two youngest sons, Samuel and David, (who were at that time aged 14 and 17 respectively) the tract on which Jonathan resided at the time of his death. This was the tract lying south of the Col. Joseph Stout farm, now George E. Weart's, and extended south about one mile along the Province line, and west to the mountain road. This tract now includes the farms of P. W. Sheppard, Harry Van Dyke, David Moore, Miss Sarah Stout, Peter O. Voorhees, and the northern half at least of the David Stout and Amos Bond farms. The will states that these two sons were left "one full equal undivided sixteenth part of a proprietary," and one standing on the hill near Mr. George E. Weart's dwelling and viewing this whole tract spread out like a panorama at his feet can but exclaim in admiration, "What a magnificent inheritance was theirs!"
[bstout2.ged]

http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jlhenderson5565&id=I40466
Residence: Hopewell, New Jersey
Organized Baptist Church, Columbia Village of Hopewell, New Jersey
Military Captain in the Militia
Occupation: 1681 President of the County Court
Patent 1688- 30 Acres at Middletown and Conesconk, New Jersey
Owned Slaves
Yeoman
Will: Monmouth County, New Jersey
Christening: Gravesend, Suffolk County, New York
Burial: Hopewell, Mercer County, New Jersey
Ancestral File #: AFN:3LWZ-MP, MG83-CQ
1681 President of the County Court

JOHNATHAN STOUT, b 1660 Gravesend, Kings, NY, d 1723 Hopewell, Mercer,NJ--source: Mabel Van Dyke Baer.
"Johnathan Stout was one of the first settlers of Old Hopewell and thefirst permanent white settler in the NE part of Hopewell township,locating on the hill 1 mile N of Stoutsburg. There he lived near the oldIndian town of Minnepenasson to about the year 1703."
source: Ethel Stroupe writing in the Rowan Co Register, pub by JW Linn.
"The first white man in Hopewell was Jonathan Stout who in 1685 explored the wilderness from his parents' home in Middletown, lived several years at Wissamonson with the Indians, then returned home."

gives lifespan, date of marriage to Anna Bollen, birthdates of 9 children.
source: "From Richard & Sarah Merrell 1642 to Tom & Flora Merrell 1943"by C. Phelps Merrell.
"Militia captain. Lived near the Baptist Meeting House in Hopewell N J.Organized the Baptist Church at Columbia Village. 1681 President of CO Court.
source: NJ Colonial Documents: East Jersey Deeds, etc., Liber D.
"1687-8 Jan 4. Deed. Rd Stoutt senior of Midletoun to his son Jonathan Stoutt, for part of the patent of land at Waramaness, Midletoun (4 Jun1677), S John Bowne, E the Hope R., W a barren hill, N the division line ;also 5 ac of meadow in Conesconk, to be taken from the E side ofgrantor's 30 ac lot."
source: NJ Colonial Documents: East Jersey Deeds, etc., Liber B.
"1687-8 Mar 22. Patent to Jonathan Stoutt of Middletown, for 30 ac in Monmouth Co, E a branch of Hope R., S Jonathan Holmes, NW grantee, W apoint `lying to John Bowne's land.'"
source: "Old Times in Old Monmouth Co N J" tells some of the local incidents of his times.
Abt 1695, a Negro named Jeremy killed his master and escaped; caught, he admitted his guilt and was hung in Monmouth. 31 Aug 1699, the court at Middletown convened for trying Negro causes had 3 Stouts on its grandjury: a David, Peter and James. A Negro named Tom was indicted, tried and convicted of rape on a white woman named Grace Wood. The court sentenced him to death.
source: NJCD: Calendar of Wills.
"1722 Nov 24. Jonathan Stout of Hopewell, Hunterdon, yeoman, will of.
Children: Jos, Sarah, Hannah, Benj, Zebulon, Jno, David, Sam'l, Anne .Real and personal estate. (1/16 of a proprietary share) Exec: Andrew Smith. Wit: Hezekiah Bonham, Hezekiah Bunell, Bartholomew Corwine. Proved25 Mar 1723. Liber 2 p219.
"1722/3 Mar 24. Inventory of personal estate. L 362.2.10 3/4 including a clock L 7.10, two negro girls L 20, negro man L35, made by Thos Runion &Thos